Reviews

Invisible Faces

Tomáš Liška

Bringing together musicians from Turkey, Serbia and the Czech Republic, bassist Tomáš Liška here draws upon a shared musical language...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Imaginary Archives Vol 1: Ritual Music from Nameless Civilisations

Juhani Silvola

Swedish innovator Juhani Silvola is set to release another three albums on his Eighth Nerve label after this – one...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Noir et Blanc

Zazou/Bikaye/CY1

Recorded in 1983 by the composer Hector Zazou in collaboration with French synth experimentalists Guillaume Loizillon and Claude Micheli (aka...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Babel Fish

Amariszi

The Dutch band Amariszi have been playing Balkan-inspired pop music for the past decade and Babel Fish is their third...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Initiatrix

Heloise Pilkington

Heloise Pilkington's Halloween-released Initiatrix is an original and thoughtfully constructed piece of work. A collection of original songs and chants...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Will You?

Shujaat Husain Khan, Kevin Hays, Katayoun Goudarzi, Tim Ries & Dibyarka Chatterjee

Perhaps there is something about the texts of the great Persian-language poet Rumi that chime with the times we are...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Translate

Jiggy

It has been proved many a time that, in fusing the traditional music of two cultures, wonderful results can emerge,...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Waters Wide

Koral Society

Somewhat of a supergroup, Koral Society comprises Caroline Trettine on guitar and lead vocals, Mosi Conde on kora and Alison...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

World Peace Trio

World Peace Trio

World Peace Trio sees Dwiki Dharmawan, Gilad Atzmon and Kamal Musallam come together to create eight tracks of pure fusion....

Reviewed in issue December/2017

IIII+IIII

ÌFÉ

Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan, sits on the Atlantic coast, looking out towards the African continent, 5,000km to the east....

Reviewed in issue November/2017